Funnels: Artistic, Interesting - and just ordinary!!

[PoloUK]

I was looking through some images yesterday and wondered about funnels. Ships ones, not the devices you use to get liquids from one type of container to another.

I searched the forums and couldn't find a funnel thread - so despite the danger that I will be considered weird - what funnel photos do we have - especially artistic or otherwise interesting ones.

A few to start with:

Nordstjernen



Lofoten



Crown of Scandinavia

[Tommi]

This is really a classic shipspotter topic. There's a strange faschination for funnels along people with maritime interest. Seagull and I discussed this a while ago. While the pakarang-view is quite special for CVF, the funnel picture is fundamental for ship nerds.


Amorella.


Richard With in Trollfjord.


A rather strange design on the Stralsund-sisters.


Birka Paradise.


Birka Paradise again.


And a real old one Kalypso, from 1993.

[Sterkoder]

Interesting theme for a thread..., and as Tommi say, there's something about the funnel of a ship. Nerdy or not....
Inspired by this thread, the fact that we live in darkness here so I don't have fresh pictures to work with and since I haven't worked with pictures for a long time, I discovered that my different albums had a lot of funnels in them.
I'm sure there's more, but let me just start by these few, and first, "Lofoten"s funnel in transition going from OVDS to HG


While we are with the HR, here's "Narvik"


"Sjøkurs"


"Astoria"


And if I'm not mistaken, "Astoria" became "Saga Pearl II", so here's how the funnel looked then (now)

[PoloUK]

Hey ho - we're onto something here - I like Tommi's Swedish big boats! Not sure whether Serenade or Symphony, but have a Silja big sister to join your snowy Birka!!



I absolutely adore the Helsinki - Stockholm run - especially inbound to Stockholm - simply stunning.


As ever Sterkoder comes up with something interesting and different! I particularly love the split personality Lofoten one!!

[Sterkoder]

"Marco Polo" visited us in 2007


NCLs "Norwegian Jade"


"Balmoral"


"Boudicca"


"Saga Rose". Sadly this is no more, as this beauty was broken up in China in October 2010


HALs "Prinsendam"

[PoloUK]

How about a fast ferry from the 'Red Funnel' line, passing a very famous funnel at Southampton this weekend. Does that count as two?

Of course Saga Rose used to be Sagafjord - so two Cunard ships in two posts??

[Sterkoder]

"Dolphin Voyager"


"Silver Cloud"


"Discovery"


"Amadea"


And the final one from me at this point, "Stord I", an old steamship of the Hordaland company HSD

[PoloUK]

Gosh Svein, but you've got the complete set!

My last one for tonight - a hazy view from the White Cliffs across Dover Harbour. Pride of Calais and one of the DFDS ships in the haze.



Thanks Tommi and Sterkoder for making this so much fun already!

[Tommi]

Hey ho - we're onto something here - I like Tommi's Swedish big boats! Not sure whether Serenade or Symphony

That's the Symphony!

[Sterkoder]

Well, Mark..., I don't know..., it seems I got quite a few after all
I also said I would stop for now, but who can possibly stop now that we are in such a good motion?
Not me, so here are a few not connected with cruise, and I start with "Superspeed I" in Kristiansand three years back


Tanker "Annelise Theresa"


Research vessel "Johan Hjort"


"Cemstar"

[Sterkoder]

Veteran vessel "Hindholmen"


Tanker "Navion Norvegia"


Not a very common design, but this is the result if the ship designers absolutly want the superstructure and funnel to be of equal size.
Here's BigLifts "Happy Ranger"

[Seagull]

Hahahaha #10/2 looks like me knocking down a wall with a geological hammer'!!!!!!!

[janihudi]

no need of introducing

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[PoloUK]

That's the Symphony!

I'm going to regret asking this, but how do you know? I thought they were identical?

[Tommi]

I'm going to regret asking this, but how do you know? I thought they were identical?

The center of the eye of the seal is white on the Serenade.

A bit hard to see.

A bonus picture:

Princess Maria, ex. Finlandia 1981.

[PoloUK]

The center of the eye of the seal is white on the Serenade.

Sometimes you worry me Tommi!! Well spotted - and thanks!

[Sterkoder]

Not quite satisfied with the qulity of my next series of pictures, I really want to try and continue this funny thread about funnels ()

So, from 2005, here's "Svanøy" visiting Kristiansund for a night-stop. This car ferry is specially known to a certain someone I would guess...


Another car ferry is "Bjørnsund" seen here about to sail under the Sørsundet bridge one time during the summer of 2006


I wanted to use the hole picture of "Stordal", because it seems that Fjord1MRF has used a completely new colourscheme on their ferry here..., if you just took a rapid look.


But looking closely, the russian funnel belongs to the trawler "Uavt Rybachiy"

[Sterkoder]

Another russian trawler using Kristiansund as its base, is "Karelia II"


And the largest russian trawler using Kristiansund for every crew change and new provisions, is "Kapitan Gorbashev"




A norwegian trawler, "Havbryn"


Then, let me just end with the two most beautiful car ferries in the Fjord1MRFs fleet list; "Bolsøy" (closest) and "Veøy".
Now..., these are not actually the functioning funnels, as those are two small "boxes" at the stern.
These two ferries is in winter lay-up each year and used on the Geiranger fjord during the summer season

[Sterkoder]

I might have a few funnel pictures left, but the sooner the better, I'll give you my most special one right now.
This is as close to a funnel I can come, in fact I'm INSIDE a funnel.
During a trip from Molde to Kristiansund, I took this picture inside "Lofoten"s funnel while sailing up Hustadvika in May 2008.
To help you understand what you see, the lighting there is inside the lower part of the Hurtigruten logo on the port side of the funnel.

[Jack Mulder]

MV Amaliahaven 7946394 I sailed with this ship from Crete tot Vlissingen.


Jack Mulder